Emerson Yazzie Jr
VANDERWAGEN — Services for Emerson Yazzie Jr., 21, will be at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 27 at the Pine Tree Mission in Vanderwagen. Pastor Virgil Chee will officiate. Burial will follow in Pine Tree Cemetery.
Visitation will be Monday, Feb. 26 from 3-5 p.m., at Cope Memorial Chapel and a wake will be 6 p.m., Monday at 804 Draco in Gamerco.
Yazzie died Feb. 22 in Vanderwagen. He was born Sept. 5, 1985 in Gallup into the Bitter Water People Clan and for the Turtle Deer Clan of the Seneca.
Yazzie was a resident of Vanderwagen. He was an artist and attended high school in Santa Fe.
Survivors include his daughter, Valencia Jake of Gallup; parents, Marcella Bitsie of Gamerco and Emerson Yazzie Sr., of Vanderwagen; brothers, Edmund Bitsie of Gamerco, Robert Bitsie of Vanderwagen, Leanderson Yazzie and Irvinson Yazzie, both of Crestview, N.M., Elrey Yazzie of Zuni; grandparents, Helen Yazzie of Vanderwagen and Richard Bitsie Sr.of Mexican Springs.
Yazzie was preceded in death by his grandmother, Vivian Bitsie, and his grandfather, Andrew Yazzie.
Pallbearers will be Herbert Bitsie, Eugene Blueeyes, Antonio Arias, Randy Yazzie, Bernie Tsosie and Anderson Yazzie.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Burial:
Pine Tree Cemetery
Vanderwagen
McKinley County
New Mexico, USA
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